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By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – The Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (National Telecommunications Agency, ANATEL) has suspended Brazilian mobile phone providers TIM,...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – The 2012 Brazilian municipal elections will not take place until October but with rifts between staunch allies,...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Brazil cut its benchmark Selic interest rate to a record low of eight percent Thursday, in an...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Almost forty Brazilian pilots who fly internationally must retake English proficiency tests, Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - The joint committee formed to examine the provisional measure to the Forest Code approved the main text...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Despite a raft of recent stimulus measures, data released last week showed Brazilian industry continuing to perform...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Brazilian air traffic control should improve its communication with planes flying over the Atlantic Ocean, recommended the...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - In May President Dilma Rousseff passed the Lei de Acesso à Informação (Access to Information Act) and...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Shares in Eike Batista’s oil and gas company, OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes (OGX), rebounded Monday after...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - The Brazilian government announced Wednesday a stimulus package of R$8.4 billion of public-sector purchases to combat slow...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Wary of dependence on the dollar, Brazil and China on Thursday agreed to a R$60 billion currency...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Mercosur members including Brazil have suspended Paraguay from the South American economic alliance following Friday’s impeachment of...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - With much of the world’s political attention focused on the marvelous city for Rio+20 last week, and...

By Lucy Jordan, Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – President Dilma Rousseff arrived in Los Cabos, Mexico Sunday to attend the 7th G-20 Summit of...